Australia 25°59’60” S 135°11’55” E
18 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We have officially started the Simpson desert part of your trip entering the first of four parks that we pass through in three different states.
AustraliaState of South AustraliaWitcherrie Mound26°25’17” S 135°30’10” E
18 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Camped for the night at Dalhousie springs beautiful place made even better by the hot springs. It’s like a warm bath only about 50 times the size and it never goes cold.
AustraliaState of South AustraliaPurni Bore26°17’5” S 136°5’53” E
19 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Smaller and hotter spring than Dalhousie but unlike Dalhousie it’s not a natural spring. Miners drilled through to and then capped the spring but the cap degraded over time and so it became theLeer más
AustraliaState of South AustraliaMacumba 1 Oil Well26°26’35” S 136°51’21” E
19 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
First camp fire for the trip, won’t be able to have too many as we can’t collect wood out here. We are camped for the night with no one around in fact we haven’t seen another car since about 1pmLeer más
Australia 26°23’56” S 137°38’43” E
20 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
I drove today, all day on the dunes it got so bumpy at times my butt left the seat, luckily I’m short enough I didn’t knock myself out on roof. I did it though and we didn’t get bogged so winLeer más
AustraliaState of QueenslandDiamantina26°16’17” S 138°7’16” E
21 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
So not much happened today just lots of driving though we did see a water hole we were not expecting surrounded by lots of tiny birds with some obvious camel traffic though we are yet to see an actualLeer más
AustraliaState of South AustraliaLake Poeppel25°59’49” S 137°59’56” E
22 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We were in three places at once today at Poeppel corner where NT, SA and QLD meet. Benny bear even got to sign his name in the visitor book.
AustraliaState of QueenslandDiamantina25°52’48” S 139°2’51” E
23 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We made it through the Simpson and conquered Big Red. The way Jenson was acting you would think he personally drove the entire trip.
AustraliaState of QueenslandBouliaBoulia Airport22°54’41” S 139°54’40” E
AustraliaState of QueenslandMount IsaPioneer20°43’25” S 139°30’56” E 25 de junio de 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Settled and quiet day off in Mt Isa essentially doing nothing but letting the kids play and run around with a day out of the car.
It’s been nice to sit back and just read while the kids play.
